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I wasn’t very deep in my collection before I started thinking about the value of all this obsolete tech. I’ve also had several comments on some of my articles asking for estimates on what I thought a particular piece was … Continue reading →

Behold the Magnajector! History The Magnajector is an opaque projector that was created in the 50s by Rainbow Crafts Inc of Cincinnati Ohio, a company that is more popularly known for being the inventors and original distributers of Play-doh. With the … Continue reading →

It’s always a bad sign when a blog goes dark for more than a month, and it’s even sadder when the last blog is one celebrating all the new posts that will be coming very very soon. And then silence. … Continue reading →

While my plans to do several posts over the Christmas holidays never quite worked out, the Museum was kindly visited by Santa and now includes, among other things, a Betamax player, a Toshiba Solid State Television (whatever that means, a … Continue reading →

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So despite there being no posts in the past month it does not mean that the Museum is done or finished. Rather, with Christmas approaching there is lots of other stuff going on and it will be a couple weeks … Continue reading →

This is the Copyrex Liquid Duplicator. History The Liquid (or Spirit) Duplicator was a cheap manual way to make lots of paper copies of in a pre-photocopy era. They were used through most of the first half of the twentieth … Continue reading →

This is the Revere Model 80 Standard 8mm Film Projector. History This projector was manufactured by the Revere Camera Company, which was founded in 1939 in Chicago. Unlike the GoldE Manufacturing company (which was also in Chicago) there is a bit … Continue reading →

I enjoy watching how a series of movies that are always set in ‘current day’ handle how technology progresses between movies. In re-watching the Bourne saga the most noticeable bit was how all the monitors in the CIA in the first two … Continue reading →

Writing about music in yesterday’s Walkman post set me thinking about music that I love, and how it’s been impacted by technology. Since I started working with video editing I’ve fallen deeply in love with instrumental music. There’s a moment … Continue reading →

This is the Sony Walkman. History The Sony Walkman was released at the start of the 80s and has become the proprietary eponym for ‘portable cassette player’. Strangely enough, Sony has moved the Walkman name on to lines of portable MP3 players … Continue reading →

Who has heard of World of Goo? And I don’t mean my kitchen….;) My kids used to play this game on the computer, this World of Goo. A game based on principles of physics, the idea is to build structures out of goo balls that will reach certain heights and then other reactions will happen. Anyways, the things that grabbed my attention on this game were the graphics and the music! (Of course!) My biggest beef about the computer games the kids play is whether I like the music or not!! (Poptropica is fine because there is no music or noise!)

Last year we had a World of Goo birthday party, just our family, for our son’s birthday. Like I said, I like the graphics and the colors in the game, the (mostly) black goo balls and windmills against colored skies.I especially like the purple skies!So I tried to get…

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This is R.O.B., the Robotic Operating Buddy. History R.O.B. was an accessory for the original Nintendo Entertainment System that was primarily created for the North American pack-in version sold at launch in 1985. R.O.B was included in the deluxe packages of the … Continue reading →

One of my favorite movies growing up was Desk Set, a 1957 Hepburn-Tracy romantic comedy about a computer expert (Spencer Tracy) who is sent to a television studio’s library/research division (headed up by Katherine Hepburn) to install a massive ENIAC-style … Continue reading →

This is the GoldE Manumatic Film Slide Projector History Back in the early 2000s, I ran across what I called a ‘hole in the internet’. I was trying to find out how fast a cow could run in order to … Continue reading →